The Ten Doctors
Chapter 1
We arrived on Earth in 2006 so that Rose could visit her mother before the Doctor took my husband, Julian Bashir, and I on one last adventure.
"You're not Human," were Mickey Smith's first words to me after I stepped out of the TARDIS.
"How do you know?"
"Your tongue is purple."
"Ricky, stop being rude," the Doctor said.
Mickey rolled his eyes at the Time Lord. "Human or not, pleased to meet you," he said, shaking my hand.
"At least it's not just you and the Doctor," Jackie Tyler commented to her daughter.
"Mum!"
We had only been in London for a couple of hours when the Doctor collapsed. Rose and I instantly kneeled to check him over. I touched his forehead and one of his memories played in my mind.
"Cosmic angst… A man is only the sum of his memories, especially Time Lords… need to get back to the TARDIS…" I said aloud.
Rose quickly said good-bye to her mother and Mickey as Julian and I carried the Doctor to the time/spaceship.
"Now what?" the blonde woman asked after following us and closing the door.
"I take it that something like this hasn't happened before," Julian said.
Rose shook her head.
"Not with Rose," I answered.
Suddenly, the TARDIS console column started rising and falling.
"Don't start worrying yet," I said.
Minutes later, when we had landed, Rose asked, "Can we worry yet?"
Then the column started again. "Get out, now," I ordered.
The second we and the unconscious Doctor made it out of the TARDIS, the time/spaceship started dematerializing.
"Where are we?" Julian inquired, looking around at the desolate landscape.
"Gallifrey," the Doctor answered, sitting up.
"Gallifrey?" Rose echoed. "But, you said it was destroyed and you couldn't-"
"This means that someone is severely breaking the laws of time," I said.
"Isn't the Doctor the last Time Lord?"
"I am. Which makes finding who did this all the more important. Which way, Tengu?"
The Doctor and I led on. There weren't any distinctive landmarks yet. I asked, "Never thought you'd be back in the Death Zone, did you?" The Doctor shook his head.
It wasn't until an hour later until we saw signs of life in the form of Daleks. There was a semicircle. Facing the Daleks, their backs to a cliff edge, were two men. One wore a purple velvet jacket and black cape and had fluffy white hair. The other wore a long brownish jacket and a long scarf and had curly brown hair.
The Doctor beside me groaned. I allowed myself to smile.
"You are not to be exterminated," a Dalek said to the two men.
The men glanced at each other for an instant. The curly-haired one grinned and said, "That's more like it."
"Perhaps, if you would tell us what exactly is going on?" requested the white-haired man.
"You will be silent," the lead Dalek ordered as the group of them moved forward. The two men took another step back at the threat. One more step and off the cliff they'd go.
"Oi, Daleks, over here!" the Doctor called out.
The second the war-machines turned to see us, I used the Force to crush their armor. One Dalek wasn't as badly damaged as the rest and let off a shot at the two men on the cliff edge. The velvet-clad one dropped to the ground in response. The scarf-wearing one jumped back in surprise. He teetered at the cliff's edge for a second, then fell backwards.
Without a second thought, I ran and dived after him. I knew there was a fast-moving, white rapids river below. The curly-haired man hit the water and was instantly carried off down the rocky rapids. I swam after him as best I could.
Finally, I was able to grasp his scarf and pull myself to him. "Nice day for a swim," he commented.
I shook my head. "Not now. Look behind you."
The man's eyes widened when he saw that we were heading straight for a waterfall. I lost hold of him when we went over. I crashed into the water after he did, nearly hitting my head on a rock.
I surfaced, quickly glanced around, and dove back under when I didn't see him. Heavy wet cloth trailed over my legs. The curly-haired man was unconscious, floating underwater. A thin stream of blood trailed upward from a cut above his eye.
I pulled him up and, once in the calmer part of the river, turned him over onto his back and towed him to the river bank. I checked his heartsbeat and respiration. They were slightly slowed, but would regulate soon.
"Tengu!" I heard Julian call out. He, the Doctor, Rose, and the velvet-jacketed man were sprinting down the slope towards us. Once they reached us, my husband remarked, "Next time, a warning before leaping off a cliff would be nice."
"How is he?" inquired the Doctor and the white-haired man in unison.
"He'll be fine in a minute," I answered. Without turning my gaze from the unconscious man, I called out, "Miss Smith, Miss Grant, come from hiding. I know you're there."
The two young women emerged from behind a boulder and slowly approached. At that moment, the unconscious man bolted upright.
I greeted, "Hello, Doctor."